Crepicephalus

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{{Taxobox

| name = Crepicephalus

| fossil_range = Dresbachian{{cite journal

|last=Sepkoski

|first=Jack

|author-link=Jack Sepkoski

|title=A compendium of fossil marine animal genera (Trilobita entry)

|journal=Bulletins of American Paleontology

|volume=363

|pages=1–560

|year=2002

|url=http://strata.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=307&rank=class

|accessdate=2008-01-12

|url-status=dead

|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060905162524/http://strata.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=307&rank=class

|archivedate=2006-09-05

}}

| regnum = Animalia

| phylum = Arthropoda

| classis = Trilobita

| ordo = Ptychopariida

| superfamilia = Crepicephalacea

| familia = Crepicephalidae

| genus = Crepicephalus

| genus_authority = Owen, 1852

| synonyms = Crepiceaphlus, Crepicepalus, Crepicocephalus, Sneedvillia

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision =

{{specieslist

|C. iowensis|(Owen, 1952) (type) = Dikelocephalus iowensis

}}

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Crepicephalus is an extinct genus from a well-known class of fossil marine arthropods, the trilobites. It lived from 501 to 490 million years ago during the Dresbachian faunal stage of the late Cambrian Period.